Phahlane is testifying before the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system.
The allegations were made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi during a media briefing last year.
Phahlane divulged the names of those journalists.
“The attack directed at me by Robert Robert McBride and Paul O’Sullivan and their sustained campaign through the media both print and electronic bears testimony to their control of individual journalists whom they weaponised against me. A propaganda machinery unleashed against me by McBride and O’Sullivan was spearheaded by the select group of journalists whom I know by the way and I will name them here if need be. Marianne Thamm is one of those people. Who else? The late Karima Brown, she is one of those people. Abraham Mashego is one of those people. Barry Bateman is one of those people.”
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